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>>20966858
Hirooki Goto & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice & Gedo)
>Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji & Daiki Nagai) vs United Empire (Jake Lee & Zane Jay)
>Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi & Taiji Ishimori) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>Boltin Oleg & Masatora Yasuda vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)

WED.Aug.12.2026 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Act City Hamamatsu (Block match order TBD)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Yota Tsuji vs Jake Lee
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Hirooki Goto vs Yuto-Ice
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Shingo Takagi vs SANADA
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Konosuke Takeshita vs Ryohei Oiwa
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Boltin Oleg vs Great-O-Khan
>TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs Aaron Wolf & Tatsuya Matsumoto
>United Empire (Zane Jay & Callum Newman) vs United Empire (Jakob Austin Young & HENARE)
>Yuya Uemura & Masatora Yasuda vs Unbound Co. (Gedo & OSKAR)

THU.Aug.13.2026 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall (Block match order TBD)
>G1 Climax 36 B Block - Aaron Wolf vs Zack Sabre Jr.
>G1 Climax 36 B Block - Gabe Kidd vs Ren Narita
>G1 Climax 36 B Block - Callum Newman vs HENARE
>G1 Climax 36 B Block - Yuya Uemura vs OSKAR

FRI.Aug.14.2026 23:00am(PDT) / SAT.Aug.15 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Ryogoku Sumo Hall

SAT.Aug.15.2026 23:00am(PDT) / SUN.Aug.16 2:00am(EDT) 7:00am(BST) Ryogoku Sumo Hall

Previous thread >>20926230

SHEEEEEEEEEEEESH

If Shin Ashe didn't get concussed this would be a 9/10 G1

>>20966942
Gaijin hurting the G1 in every way possible, ya hate to see it

>>20967053
they put too many in the same block. switch a few guys around and the blocks become balanced.

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I'm loving NJPW's new house style. It's like king's road mixed with their pre-Omega and Okada feud match pacing. Don't think Oiwa has even won with the gripmeister yet.
Once again, while every other promotion is stuck in the past copying NJPW's dead style, NJPW is innovating and providing the best and most unique wrestling you can see. YEAH, I'm thinking we're BACK.

kek, the reiwa kids are redefining wrestling in their own image while Shota sits on the sidelines
Oiwa bullying Goto into giving up on his dream of ever winning the IWGP heavyweight championship again with a fucking headlock will be the lasting image of the generational handover for me.
to be fair to Shota, Uemura hasn't done too much to ascend to the next level either. but he still has time.

>>20967454
Yuya and Oiwa legit work like 70's/80's wrestlers with modern pacing. Also for all the people saying Yuto isn't very good, Boltin is the third guy that's wrestled him, found some sovl and leveled up after. Like you said, we're BACK

>>20967496
Literally impossible in B Block. The taiyo will shine bright in Ryogoku

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F

Sad for OSKAR but I'm glad Callum won, now Gabe has lost 1st place. Rest in piss to the tony toy.

>2,742人(満員)
Almost 300 more than last year with Shota vs Takeshita in the main event.

>>20968126
Depending on the setup of Ryogoku for the sellout they have and what they can do for the Finals, this year is likely going to outdraw last year's tournament in total attendance.

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>>20968126
Even our grim B block managed to overcome last year. NuJamal has officially kicked out at 2.9 and hulked up

I actually do want Edge to wrestle at the Tokyo Dome after having had a week to think after his announcement.
KOB would get an absolute nuke of a pop if they beat Edge and Christian at Wrestle Kingdom and really solidify them as the tag team of an entire generation

>>20968170
>Edge
>jobbing
that's not gonna work for the Copester brother

>>20968170
Nobody in Japan gives a fuck about Edge & Christian lol

Christian will draw more peeps to NJPW World than Toa Henare and the Great O Pedo and it's a delusional nujamal that protests otherwise

>>20968231
>Japanese don't give a fuck
>AEW fans will just watch gifs on Twitter and give the match a 10 on Cagematch
ZERO MOMENTUM. DEAD COMPANY. GRIM!

grimcel refused to address the SKYROCKET in attendance, pathetically ignoring inconvenient truths, just like the aewdrone he is

>>20968247
Even AEW fans don't pretend to like them outside of Christian doing the same shtick he's been doing for 4 years now. The bigger problem is them wanting the Bucks to wrestle KOB and have the same shitty match they've been having for 20 years.

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>>20968252
Grimsters are not troons, you literally are by supporting the ass penetrated company that is Noojapoo though, you literally have 2 trannies going over your guys in each block. Some numbers are less grim than last year which was the grimmest G1 ever but it's still very grim. You look at the total attendance numbers and it's not even half of what they used to do. If a 2 thousy in the biggest tour of the year is a huge win for you then it says everything about the current state of Noojapoo. Even the "sold out" numbers are grim because they don't use the right setup to get a real sell out. This is why they will never do the actual 10 thousy sell out in the Sumo Hall ever again. You will see when we get the numbers. Grim.

JUNGLE BOY wrestled Tsuji in the Tokyo Dome and you think this anally gaped company is too good to book Edge lmao this is a prostitute promotion, we're not in 2017 anymore. get real

>>20968349
>Grimsters are not troons
dont seem like thats the case

>>20968360
I bet this match is why Tsuji hates AEW so much lol

>>20968349
>Grimsters are not troons
Nice try Portugal tranny, we all saw your Shota hate posts and pro-AEW posts during the World Cup with your gay thirdie flag

Can we all agree that Gene Blasta is the G1 MVP?

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>being the MVP of the shittiest G1 ever

>>20968412
is that your new headcanon ? you're still watching a wrestling promotion that has two trannies as champ though

>>20968433
Yes, if you can treat the G1 like a player's audition for why he should be the top guy, then Tsuji deserves to go over at the next Wrestle Kingdom as well.

Callum goes 1-1 - ends at 12 (is B1)
Uemura wins out - ends at 12 (is B2)
Gabe goes 1-1 - ends at 12
Narita loses out - ends at 10
ZSJ wins out - ends at 10
Drilla wins final match - ends at 10
Wolf goes 1-1 - ends at 8
Henare loses out - ends at 8
OSKAR loses final match - ends at 8
Umino is fried - ends at 0

Gabe is losing to both Ren and Yuya. We throwing the toys away this G1.

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This is what we need

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I'm ready to accept a Uemura vs Tsuji Wrestle Kingdom main event!

Callum going 7-2 when Tsuji cant even do that is gonna miss me off heavy

>>20968697
Clicked half-randomly and ended up with a semifinals of Boltin/Uemura and Narita/Oiwa. Prefer that over Tsuji and Callum in the playoffs.

I just realized Jake is forcing Tsuji into a draw on the final night of A Block

Starting to think Callum goes to shady clubs at night and pays men to take him to a room and throw him into chairs repeatedly

>>20969818
Im starting to think he'd be really good working hard-core matches.

i'm getting a vision of Oiwa vs Newman with Oiwa winning

>>20970661
KWAHL

>>20970675
Me too. Seeing Oiwa over Kidd and Newman over Takeshita so Khan gets 3 of the 4 toys in the playoffs, but Oiwa wins for Shin Nihon.

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Love Yokohama
Love Finner
Hate card games
Simple as

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Unironically saves NJPW in you're path

I heard they recapped Takeshita's G1 on Collision but not Gabe's lol

>>20968252
Im afraid Gunma isn't gonna be a SKYROCKET since they had Tanahashi's last G1 match for block finals there last year (the only number he drew in that whole tournament) so he's gonna take a W tonight

>Tonight
Oiwa
Takeshita
Tsuji
Goto
Ice

>>20971795
He has so much more soul than any of their actual heels could possibly have. Should've kept him as a thug.

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WHERE MY BROTHERS AT WHERE MY BROTHERS AT

day 14 >>20973318

>>20973285
kawaii lil nigga

>>20972935
The thug cried when Hiromu left. It was Joever after that

>>20968443
this wasn't 2022

Oiwa is getting into the playoffs then

>>20972754
Yep
>1,615人
About 400 down from last year's block final though still the 2nd highest attendance in the building so far

Is Lee gonna meme magic his way into screwing Tsuji?

>>20966861
12 - Takeshita
10 - Boltin, Oiwa, Tsuji (3-way tiebreaker)
--ELIMINATED--
8 - Ice, Shingo
6 - Goto, SANADA, Jake
4 - O-Khan

is yuya already out?

>>20974355
He's close, if he loses the next match, he's out for sure.

>>20974355
>>20974358
He could win and still be out if Narita and Newman win again

i'm really sad the el desperado sofubi is no longer for sale

did anything fun happen on the tagslops? any chair action with callum? might skip to the singels otherwise

>>20971795
Bumping them to new years dash ended up being the best decision njpw made this year besides bringing back the v4

NOAH IS LIVE RIGHT NOW JOIN THE NOAH THREAD THEY’RE IN KORAKUEN HALL

>>20974492
The thread is ass so far thobeit

walker is genuinely so grim, he knows nothing about wrestling even if he has a nice voice. he didn't even know what the TM Clutch was despite Oiwa having won with it multiple times.

>>20974584
OSKAR asked him who was the last guy to win G1 back to back and he said Midkarda did it lmfao, wasn't sure if he was being a cazzie retard or if Ibushi is Benoited out of the commentary canon

>>20974604
Okada won 2021 and 2022 ya dolt

>>20974604
Because it was Okada, retard.

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Yeah, well my brain my have shit itself, but you know what? I'm closing the tab and going to pace around my room until the embarrassment fades, so there.
(i shoot memoryholed the Ibushi kwabbing himself year kek)

how can we even hope for the toy to not finish at the top of the block now that boltin got btfo
absolutely grim city

LIJbros we still winning out here

i lost respect for naitetty when he left njpw under the pretence of wanting tour the world for the heckin fans and then just camped out in NOAH. yappari, he just wanted to be the big fish so moved to a smaller pond.

>>20974762
I think he wanted to do tour but got scammed and couldn't handle being an actual freelancer. noah is whatever but makes sense he ended up there

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>>20974604
>>20974614
>>20974615
Massive self-own.

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>1,615人
>Trannyshitter is making it out of his block
grim ass penetrated company

>>20974294
He’s forcing him into a draw via double countout like Yujiro did to Shingo back in 2021

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>The very day my G1 elimination was sealed...

>Naito went and won the GHC title...

>It really was a frustrating day!

>I’m competing against him in my own mind, after all.

>I want to show everyone that I can go wild and stay more full of energy than anyone else in my generation.

>I’m going to regroup starting tomorrow and get ready for the next fight!

>As long as I’ve got this kind of drive, I’ve still got plenty left in the tank.

>Alright, let’s get to it.

>>20975216
NOAH put their strap on 2026 Naito? Good lord...

So much for them pushing their young guys now, kek

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*wins*

>>20975282
They've spent a good amount of time doing and OZAWA beat Naito so letting this happen is a harmless move. Like Goto winning the title but more of a drawing incentive. Also the match was good apparently

>>20975393
he can barely walk lmao

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holy yen

>>20975393
Brother Goto can GO(to). Naito can barely get out of bed to walk to the bathroom to take a piss.

>>20975443
Then you unsure the stream...

>>20975461
unmute*

>>20972843
Fucking nailed it

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You're living in a world where only one beefy 27 year old kid is standing in the way of an AEW player repeating the G1 Climax.

UEMURA FAILED
TSUJI FAILED
NARITA FAILED
UMINO FAILED
ICE FAILED
OIWA CAN STILL WIN
GANBARE SEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hoping for an oiwa vs newman zoomer-off. fujos and gays on a pole stipulation bout

>>20975483
TAKE MY ENERGY

Trying to do the math, and avoid Oiwa as A1 meeting Uemura as B2 in the semifinals, and I think the only way is for Tsuji or Gabe (but not both) to make it instead of Takeshita/Newman.

Tsuji has a chance to miss the playoffs but the official site is saying he’s 100% in meaning they have already spoiled him advancing

>>20975483
Tsuji beat him though

>>20975650
The wageoids who do writeups on the english site don't get any info and have to treat it like a shoot sport, same as the jap journalists. it saying that "Oiwa controls his destiny, as does Yota Tsuji" is just some dumbass being bad at math or bad at english, because Oiwa actually controls Tsuji's destiny.

Tsuji getting spoiled by the Jakeler seems like an inevitable KWAB exit to protect him as a champ, but I hope he and Oiwa both win and become A1 and 2. There are literally no matchups against the B blockers I want to see from Takeshita. I'm not interested in him vs Callum, or Narita, or Uemura, or, god forbid, or Gabe in a double toy match. But Oiwa and Tsuji vs those guys would be awesome. Ganbare Tsuji, ganbare Oiwa.

so yuya needs to win his last two AND have either callum or ren lose their last two? the light is starting to go out for my boy but we shine on

>>20973285
kek what an ambitious player

>>20975725
It's Charlton lol

>>20975282
Oh no the 44 year old beat the 40 year old

>>20976579
it's more the fact that they're getting away from pushing guys like ozawa and the cowboy but whatever man be retarded

>>20976535
makes sense, the japanese site has just been ending the roundups with match records and point tallies, but of course our guy has gotta do his "IS THIS KENNY OMEGA'S FINAL FANTASY?" stuff

what if natio come back to njpw and has an match with yota tujis i think if natio lose it make the champion look strong

Naigod should go over that grimlet

>>20975282
>N-Noooo! You can’t just put the title on the most over wrestler in the country because..y-you just can’t, alright?!

The attendance would double if the Naitster came back, even if it was to just stand ringside as a manager and hit people with a stick like Jado did

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>>20971795
>Yuto promos

>>20977243
that would be the more honorable thing to do

going to be the NOAH champ is like having a 'soft retirement' then going to play in the MLS kek

>>20977243
never coming back after he nearly ruined tana's retirement fuck that bastard

>>20977243
I mean he only sold out the Korakuen with the gaijin shitter so it's not like he's a huge draw in 2026. I know Japanese people love their old men but it seems they let go and accepted Naito is washed. Seems like they just stopped watching wrestling though.

>>20977243
bushiroad firing naito was probably the most dumbest decision they have done. he has no knees but they could just let him do some tag match rather than being poached by competition

>>20977325
dude got worked by naito's mexican slowpoke gimmick in the big 2026

>>20977325
Lmfao worked by Naigoat

Jamal’s seething because Naito had a better match than the entirety of this years G1 while Tony’s toys sit on the top of their brackets.

Naito will return to retire at the Tokyo Dome for sure. I hope he chooses Jay instead of Okader as his final rivalry fight.

>>20977243
The only thing hurt by Naito's absence was merch sales and the crowds appeal to someone new like Tsuji and both are covered by Tsuji's current push and Yuto-Ice/KOB now. He's my GOAT but he's 100% not needed in New Japan anymore, GHC title matches in Korakuen Hall is where he belongs at this state.

Really, the only alumni with something to offer to the new generation in terms of putting them over are Ospreay & Okada but the latter is unlikely. They can at least move

>>20977615
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that Will's gonna "that's not gonna work for me brother" the Callum feud now that he's clearly going to win the AEW world title. i hope i'm wrong and he lets Callum beat him so the crowd can fully invest in a new white boy.

>>20977646
That would be Tony saying no to Callum winning, not Ospreay. If he's AEW Champion when the match happens then it can't be helped but he'd definitely pitch a rematch later for him to 50/50 it just so Callum has a win.

>>20977440
Went a bit too far with that bait mate

>>20977646
>>20977704
tony has had champs lose non title matches a bunch of times and then had them go over in a title rematch, Callum can still get the Will rub and UE storyline blow off even if he's aew champ. he'll just have to get rekt in return on an aew card but NJPW fans won't even watch that so it's fine

Went into the G1 wanting Uemura to win, but Oiwa has won me over. Hoping to feel The Grip.

why do you guys even care about this callum/ospreay bullshit, callum is going to be a tony toy as soon as his contract expires and he gets tired of buttfucking AZM

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no one can get tired of buttfucking AZM, Callum will sign a lifetime contract with nujamal.

>>20977956
>why do you guys even care about this callum/ospreay bullshit
Most NJPW """fans""" are sports entertainment sissies.

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If he comes over and works as cringe tough guy aew Will instead of the classic :O style njpw fans are familiar with i dont want him
actually the story of his match should be him having to dig deep and become a soifacer again to beat callum, just like okada having to respect his old rainmaker gimmick to beat tana

>>20977901
>tony has had champs lose non title matches a bunch of times
To other company's wrestlers in other companies? The AEW World Champion especially?

>>20977980
>Won v4
>Fucking prime AZM
>Not even 25
Hate to say it, but Callum won

>>20977375
they didn't fire him, they tried to pay him what they would pay any other guy who is no longer a main event talent and he said no and walked

>>20978789
He's said about 400 times it wasn't due to pay issue

>>20978932
You could've just posted "I'm a mark". Of course it was about money you retard, money and position on the card. Naito still considers himself a main event guy, NJPW wanted to move on. If Naito was really the NJPW loyalist he has claimed to be in the past he would've taken the reduced pay and reduced roll but instead he walked.

>>20978968
>Naito still considers himself a main event guy, NJPW wanted to move on.
Thank you for getting inches closer to the real reason why. You should stop here instead of showing you can never tell the difference between when a guy is talking business and a guy is working everyone. Being a "mark" is better than being so retarded you think NOAH is paying a top New Japan guy who's also the #1 merch seller more than what New Japan can pay even while slotting him down ever so slightly.

Literally when has money ever been an issue for a Japanese talent? It's only ever been a valid topic for the gaijin who were sick of flyer over during the pandemic and the shit pay due to the weakened yen while every Japanese departure has been linked to management being shit

>>20979014
Always you fucking imbecile jesus christ you are dumb as a sack of fucking rocks

the japs just don't do their business in public and don't leak everything to dirtsheets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so53mw6P-yc
>"What are you doing pro wrestling for? Is it for your favorite anime? For card games? Whatever it is, why are you slacking off on your main job, pro wrestling?"
>"You're an influencer or ambassador for a card game company, right? Well, then you should do pro wrestling properly too. That's where you should start. After that, you can be an ambassador or influencer. Get a grip, I'm begging you."
>*cuts off without him leaving*
Fuck these people I wanna hear more

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WED.Aug.12.2026 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Act City Hamamatsu (Block match order TBD)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Konosuke Takeshita (6-2) vs Ryohei Oiwa (5-3)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Yota Tsuji (5-3) vs Jake Lee (3-5)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Boltin Oleg (5-3) vs Great-O-Khan (2-6)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Hirooki Goto (3-5) vs Yuto-Ice (4-4)
>G1 Climax 36 A Block - Shingo Takagi (4-4) vs SANADA (3-5)
>TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs Aaron Wolf & Tatsuya Matsumoto
>United Empire (Zane Jay & Callum Newman) vs United Empire (Jakob Austin Young & HENARE)
>Yuya Uemura & Masatora Yasuda vs Unbound Co. (Gedo & OSKAR)
>Taisei Nakahara & Toru Yano vs Unbound Co. (Drilla Moloney & Daiki Nagai)

>>20979014
when okada got a 2.1 billion yen contract from a money mark

>>20979302
So its definitely Tsuji w/preferably Oiwa but possibly Takeshita instead. All of this ends up fine as long as Uemura breaks through to 2nd place in B block, in which case he'd either end up beating the current champion or last year's winner. If its Oiwa he has his choice of grim heels in NuMan and Narita to overcome in the great name of Tenzan.

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Happy Monday from Mecha Tenzan.

Boltin should be eliminated by double countout draw because he deserves better than to be beaten in any fashion by that fat shitter Okhan

>>20979014
that part. NJPW asked Naito to take a pay cut around coof and he accepted and kept working there. WWE offered him a mark contract in his prime and he turned it down because NJPW was a good place to be at. And he is certainly making less money working for NOAH than he would be if he re signed with NJPW.

the simple answer and most publicly known one is that both him and Okada fucking despised Kidani. the whole Stardom fanbase despised him as well, so I don't know why we have some corpo drones here who jump to criticise the wrestlers instead of the person who ran the sloppy shop. Ibushi's mom literally tried to kill herself from distress over the conflict between Ibushi and management. And Hiromu said that naito leaving was a chance for NJPW to change, and asked management not to make scapegoats or dodge responsibility and actually start talking to the wrestlers, but they didn't and he left too.

All we can hope is that things change now that based Tsuji eliminated that faggot Kidani. Maybe Naito will come back for special appearances if Tana gives him a call, maybe not

i thought callum dating azm was just a /njpw/ meme like drilla and momo but i was on the njpw plebbit looking at the g1 points breakdowns and someone made an azm joke there
wtf he's really tapping that? he's my goat now

>>20966858
I stopped watching NJPW because of SANADA

>Korakuen Hall
>Capacity
1,403 seat
2,005 seats (maximum)

perspective

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grim

Seating venue caps are interesting after they stopped letting them actually fill to capacity after coof. NJPW sold out all the seats that were available to them at Korakuen this G1, which was 1494, and Stardom also hit the 1494 cap this summer. But Stardom has sold out with 1600 attendance a bunch of times in the past couple years, TJPW has hit 1550 this year, and NOAH just sold out a 1589 attendance crowd with Naito. And Meiko Satomura's retirement had over 1600 as well. But Tiger Mask's retirement still had the 1490 cap.
So I guess you can haggle with them and get them to open up an extra section if your show is selling well, but NJPW's management never bother to do it, while Stardom's management will occasionally.

>>20980071
In other words, New Japan has been outdrawn by Stardump, NO-ACK and TJPooW. Grim.

>>20980071
the era where bushitroad treated stardom like the a1 promotion despite njpw being more popular overall was weird

>>20980170
Stardom was more profitable and their players are willing to shill card games.

>>20980170
They wanted to boost it as much as possible so they became the focus during COVID. Fine but then all the extra bullshit started happening to New Japan.
Frankly, this mess really started when Bushiroad went public around the same time they purchased Stardom.

>>20980071
They might just be retarded

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ASHES THROW THE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE


IM NOT A SHIT GUY ANYMOOOOOOOOOORE

>>20980071
maybe because njpw attendances are fake

>>20980472
That has nothing to do with them not having more seating in Korakuen Hall even if so

watching the backstage comments for recent shows and Shingo says Yuto better not give his finisher an English name, and says it should have a good strong Japanese name. kek, based Takaichi mark

>>20980472
if they were fake they'd give themselves the numbers that TJPW gets lmfao, dumbass schizo

i think great o khan should become an evil rapist, that would be a good gimmick, like imagine him putting oiwa in the paradise lock and then he starts fucking his ass

>>20980522
Thanks for reminding me I'm on 4chan -_-

Put on that free Dory match on njpwworld, fucking hell Bob Backlund I haven't watched much with him but he turns it into a farce immediately

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>>20981219
Kek, i had the same reaction. His boyscout thing got old in the 90s so he started working a demented moralist boomer gimmick to work the edgy gen Xers. he was pretty scary at the time, it was basically a roid rage CTE benoit gimmick where he would be all howdy doody then suddenly put someone in a brutal submission hold. i was shocked to see him do the gimmick in japan because it's not like the boyscout babyface went out of fashion there. his matches against Inoki and Hansen on World are pretty good, his offense is really snug and his piledriver looks like murder.

It would be real fucking funny if Zack is actually supposed to be in the playoffs and they do the wonkiest emergency bullshit in Korakuen just to get him in

ZSJ is boring

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>>20980522
he already did that

>>20980522
That would still take too much effort for him.

So is Tenzan main eventing the semi-finals or are they gonna try and do a 30 minute ceremony before the semis?

>>20984870
Oiwa said he would main event Tenzan's retirement show. Believe in the grip!

>>20984870
Tenzan/Kojima --> G1 semis --> Tenzan ceremony would be a good move

https://www.njpw1972.com/663976
Please vote for O-Khan for Outstanding Achievement.

We found ELP! https://x.com/istomatoafruit/status/2086933166183354474

>>20985109
>Outstanding Achievement
Tsuji or Boltin
>Fighting Spirit
Obviously Ice
>Technique
Oiwa or Yuya

>>20985212
>ROH
Oof

day 15 thread >>20985554

Taguchi getting DDT belt KEK it was a really good match for him desu probably even better than the one he had against fujita in this year BOSJ

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>>20985109

fuck it, let Gabe and Yuya be B1 and B2, they're the best in the division

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>Tsuji status
Based
>Yuya status
Based
>Oiwa status
Based
>KOB status
Based
>Wolf status
Getting there
>Takeshita status
Based now that he doesnt win anything too big
>SANADA status
Giga based wily vet

NJPW just needs a proper heel and then we might be in a new golden era

>>20985998
You're gonna make way, whether you like it or not

>>20986004
why is shingo not in the wily old vet category

>>20986017
Him and Goto are in the Based Dads category

If Gabe comes back full time they can definitely use Yuya to turn him face again, especially because they protected the Lion's Shiner. If the new babyface ace hits him with a splash from the top rope and pins him, it's gonna restore the broken Tana mark's belief that good is more powerful than evil. Yuya san, please save Gabe's soul

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>poses, holds babies and slap hands for 13 minutes straight with a bad back in your path

Now NJPW is gaining momentum they need to gatekeep AEW even harder. You cannot allow people like Edge/Cope to come in and shit up the momentum

>>20986020
He's pulling a Tana's retirement, if he wins the G1

>2,310人
Last time they were here was Goto's 20th anniversary show 3 years again which this show is beats by 557.

>>20986028
hello sirs I'm tired

I hope clark kent player's back is okay

>Ability to purchase VIP merch, including 8x10 portraits of NJPW and Stardom wrestlers
what does this mean?

>>20986043
Exactly what it says

>>20986043
You get Oiwa's bathwater

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Another grim show with grim attendance. They keep pushing Drilled Bologna although he's already a Tonikan toy, just like Callme Woman. Grim.

grimjeet is seething as usual

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noojytroon is mad that his favorite ass penetrated company is grim

Gabe will beat Narita on the final day to top the block with 12 points, protecting his championship's integrity while allowing Yuya to progress to the semis with Callum

>>20986049
i’ll take 10

japanese fans are marking out for the Wolfnadian destroyer, his development into a NEVERchad is officially ruined

>>20986079
Callum shouldn't agree to moves where he does all the work but get his opponent acclaim on social media and a subsequent push. He's only 23 but he'll learn in time. But maybe Wolf is like the school principal's kid and you have to go along with him or get buried, I don't know.

I don't like Tsuji's booking, too much losses for a world champ. I'm pretty sure he's losing to Jake Lee because of their 50/50 booking and even if somehow he wins then that just means he's taking a fourth loss in the playoffs. They should go back to the old G1 format where the winners of each block meet in the final. It's better to protect the world champ.

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I know this shit had the fujos CREAMING.

>>20986088
I think Big Tsuj is gonna get jobbed out for the next year or so and then his booking will stabilise, unfortunately for him he was the first Reiwa guy to break out so he's the only one that can give the other Reiwa players the main event credibility. He already put Oleg and Callum over, I'm guessing he'll cement another young guy as a big time player by losing in the final and then another at WK.

>>20986089
>gabe
>fujos
lol, people itt really don't understand what fujos like, i remember when you dickheads were like "huh narita is popular with fujos what's up with that?!", piss off you cunt

>>20986388
Cope ya smelly jeet, you've never spoken to a woman consensually.

the collective shlicking sound when yuya and gabe were about to kiss was louder than when the hulkster bodyslammed andre

>Actually Naito leaving had NOTHING to do with money
>Japan is a magical land where all the wrestlers do it for passion only, nobody cares about money at all!
What a bunch of fucking marks ITT
Just because the Japs don't do their business in public via the dirt sheets doesn't mean wrestling isn't a fucking money driven business over there you absolute imbeciles lol

>>20986412
Calm down

>>20986412
Get your point, people romanticize this kind of talk a lot, but Wrestling is not a really high paying job, like a lot of sports if you don't go for the big league or if you don't invest in the long run in your personal image/character like many guys did in the past
I think a lot of young guys who want to become wrestlers do it for the passion, not for the easy money (which is why, aside for njpw, maybe noah not sure, most of them have as side hustle)

oh for sure naito left to wrestle in german and NOAHetty bingo halls because they pay more than NJPW

>>20986412
>Japanese soldier who kept fighting 29 years after World War II ended

We talking about the Heat Storm right now.

>>20986484
No, he left because NJPW didn't see him as a main eventer and most importantly didn't want to pay him as one

He figured if he fucked off for a few months to show his value, he'd get paid more but all of his tours backfired and he ended up in NOAH collecting a meager check, also in an attempt to raise his value again with the goal of one day being paid like a main eventer in NJPW again but it's never gonna happen and I think he has realized that now.

He just bet on himself but was unwilling to leave Japan regularly, so it blew up in his face. The only way to big league NJPW with money is to go to AEW or WWE and he clearly was not going to do both

To say it isn't about money is retarded. It is about money and status and his place on the card, that is why NOAH is booking him as a main eventer.

>The only way to big league NJPW with money is to go to AEW or WWE and he clearly was not going to do both

yappari, so you agree it wasn't a money move.

>>20986522
ESL retard

we don't sign our posts here

>>20986516
>most importantly didn't want to pay him as one
ok how you know

>>20986506
LMAO

>>20986516
Asking this again since the only answer reply I got was a guy who left due to management issues and got fuck you money from a mark >>20979014

I don't know why you guys are fighting about this, he already stated in one of the earliest interviews after leaving that the main problem was he couldn't get enough rest, he was tired of having to work so much dates meanwhile some other guys (likely foreigners) could skip some tours and had more time to rest

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>>20986088
6-3 is a perfectly good record for an IWGP champion in the G1. you also have to look at who he lost to and why. It wasn't like he lost to an O-Khan or HENARE. Then if he wins tomorrow he's in the sold out semis which is also big.
And yes I will will rescind this the moment Jake pins him tomorrow.

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>>20986628
Tenryu, Choshu, Hashimoto, Muto multiple times, Kensuke Sasaki multiple times, his wife as well, Baba leaving the JWA, KENTA coming back to NJPW instead of NOAH, KENTA going to NXT, Nakamura going to NXT, Hiromu going to NXT (lol i bet you believe that junior shit like a fucking mark), Shingo leaving Dragongate for NJPW

Basically you're a retard and money always motivates wrestlers to make choices

>>20986633
You're right, he did say that. Now ask yourself why you believe Naito, the guy whose entire gimmick is being a troll and stiffing the one media guy he talks to with the check

You got worked brother

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>No, you don't understand. Unless Dave Meltzer gets on his podcast and tells me specifically that a Japanese talent did something for the money, it's out of the realm of possibility.

>>20986707
The question blatantly refers to current New Japan guys leaving which is why it's followed up by talking about gaijin this decade leaving for money so 40-60 year-old conflicts and Shingo (no shit) are irrelevant to this. I seemingly expected too much comprehension from you. KENTA is the closest recent example even though push in his home promotion has more to do with it than pure dollars. Nakamura is last decade but sure. Hiromu, no. Any clues to why all point to his mentor Naito leaving, same with EVIL who also had a personal reason to do so.

>>20986710
Probably because he literally mentioned people will be retarded enough to still be skeptical before and after telling everyone it wasn't money? You're so afraid to being "worked" by trivial things with no element of a work taking place it turns you into an even bigger, stupider mark than before.

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>While five are now at the top of the table on ten points, Drilla Moloney has ended his campaign, meaning he is all but mathematically eliminated. Ren Narita and Callum Newman are in the strongest positions ahead of the final league night Thursday, with Gabe Kidd and Yuya Uemura also in a strong position with a win and some help. HENARE would come out on top of a large ten point tie, with others in line only in the event of an unlikely seven way unbreakable tie. A Block will wrap up Wednesday in Hamamatsu before B finishes in Korakuen in two days' time.

Yuya: beat OSKAR and hope Callum or Narita to lose. 1st place if Gabe beats Narita and HENARE beats Newman, 2nd place if either Newman or Narita win but out if they both win
Newman: beat HENARE. 1st place if Narita loses, 2nd if Narita wins
Narita: beat Gabe. 1st place no matter who else wins
Gabe: beat Narita. 2nd place if either Yuya or Newman win but out if they both win
HENARE: Funniest possible booking move

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tenzan winning and defending the honor of new japan is kino

>>20986774
worked bitch post

>>20986825
If Gabe wasn't such a geek I would've accepted him in that position facing Oiwa

>>20986825
and soon his suffering will end...

>>20986318
Love Taguchi but wtf is DDT doing these days?

>>20987458
grim things, like every other wrestling promotion on earth

>>20987458
Hes losing it to Sasaki at the end of the month so no harm no foul for me.

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I miss the Bullet Club.

Bullet Club and Bushichoad was the beginning of the end.

>>20988176
No you fucking don't, nigga

>>20988176
>>20988939
infinitely better than HoT and that's a shoot

>>20988176
The landscape of NJPW would have been so much better in the 2020s if Jay had gotten stranded in Japan during the coof. The EVIL hotshot changed the landscape of the whole fucking company

>>20986088
Don't worry, Tsuji is winning the Gene1 as champ

>>20989131
Still hurts that we never got babyface Jay, and his last WK was the most heatless WK world title match in at least a decade

>Tsuji's match is on 7th out of the 9 matches
oh yeah that nigga's getting spoiled by the Jakeler in record time so Oiwa and Take can go 30 minutes kek

>>20989293
I'm pretty sure Tsuji's winning. Because then it makes Boltin's match a must win

>>20989293
Tsuji's match has the lowest stakes since Takeshita is point leader and Boltin beat him. More likely O-Khan fucks Boltin than Jake fucks Tsuji.

Is everyone watching NJPW Tamashii? Who's your favorite wrestler?
https://youtu.be/vXkO-1hXwGE?si=gfVIEMMUZY2HO7Ym

Why is the show starting so late today? I have a job interview at 1:30

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>>20986806
https://www.njpw1972.com/662856
Match order for Thursday.

THU.Aug.13.2026 2:30am(PDT) 5:30am(EDT) 10:30am(BST) Korakuen Hall (Block match order TBD)
>Main Event : G1 Climax 36 B Block - Callum Newman (5-3) vs HENARE (4-4)
*Newman advances with a win
*HENARE must win

>7th Match: G1 Climax 36 B Block - Yuya Uemura (5-3) vs OSKAR (4-4)
*Uemura must win

>6th Match: G1 Climax 36 B Block - Gabe Kidd (5-3) vs Ren Narita (5-3)
*Narita advances with a win
*Kidd must win

>5th Match: G1 Climax 36 B Block - Aaron Wolf (4-4) vs Zack Sabre Jr. (4-4)
*Sabre must win

>UNDERCARD TBA

3 hours left I'm scared

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>Makes card gamers seethe
>Makes GOK seethe
>Makes AEWtists seethe
>Has a great G1 as champ, giving a lot of guys their best match
Gotta love Tsuji

>>20990160
KWABdani ready to do another interview crying about Tsuji mid-Tenzan ceremony

a block finals gamethread >>20990278

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>Is there friendship in the pro wrestling world?

>The legendary T-shirt that became a hot topic in 2008 is now being reissued

>Sign session on 4.26, betrayal at the Osaka show on 4.27...

>Entry photo from the Osaka show newly added

>A piece worthy of being called a masterpiece, etched into New Japan's history

>"Tenryu Yuji & Iizuka Takashi Friendship Tag T-Shirt"

>#njpwshop

https://x.com/njpw1972/status/2087457430712238178

GRIP 1

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Thank you based big brother Oiwa for coming out and headlocking AEW for bullying us

Kek, Yuya may be trying to be the next Tana, but Oiwa is the one the fujos want to get his sweat on their towels

>2,075人(満員)
Up from 1730 last year for B block finals. Based off the semi-finals and Korakuen selling out, this year's tournament will be outdrawing last year's.

>>20990837
imagine just pushing the young talent instead of AEW toys makes the number go up

>>20990837
Thank you SANADA!

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>>20990837
>t-they need players to retire to sell out!!

Apologize. The Reiwa tide is fucking SURGING.

grimcuck just got GRIPPED i fear

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I hereby declare Oiwa as a non-grim wrestler.

>>20990884
>acting like New Japan is back because they sold out a 2 thousy venue
grim

>>20990884
If the booking tightens up and we finally get some good heels then they'll be in a good place come next year's G1.

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>>20990884
I hope Gabe comes crawling back with his tail between his legs after he gets sent to the bottom of the toybox. An "ace that never was" who disqualified himself from reaching the top because of his betrayal would be an awesome addition to the upcoming era. Most of my favorite storyline drama of the 2010s was related to Punished Shibata. Callum of all people being the edgiest full-timer they have right now isn't great.

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Grip 1

Grimposter can't speak because he's stuck in a headlock

KWAB

>>20991015
>didn't go on any burgerland excursion
>mogs everyone
proof the excursion outside Japan are a work and useless

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>>20991076
You noojapoos are dancing like little goblins for a mere 2 thousy, you're dancing and giggling because they're selling slightly more tickets than last year which was the grimmest G1 in history. This is pathetic and shows you know nothing about the history of this promotion, you're probably some troon who started to watch because of the toybox partnership. The overall attendance will be grim once again, far from the 90 or 100 thousy they used to do. You little troons might feel like there's a huge shift or that your little guys are finally picking up but the numbers won't lie. You will see at the end of the tour.

>>20991133
sorry can't hear you over the numbers up so much from last year plus we sold out the Tokyo Dome ya fuckin KWAB ass bitch KWABBBBB

No grimmy? All sold outy? Oiwa's got ya on the ropes grimsimp

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>sorry I'm staying delusional and I'll keep pretending that most shows getting 1 or 2 thousy for the biggest tour of the year is a huge win please don't bully me with facts anymore I need my safe space
grim

>>20991144
That part

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>maybe if i frogpost with a fact sign that means people won't realize im a KWAB ass bitch
that's a big ol' fat KWABola from me, holy GRIMOLA the grimposter has become grim himself

>>20991186
is that it ? usually you reply to yourself way more than that

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>>20991203
oh here you go
the bubbling schizo meltdown is finally back, I'll let you seethe and will come back to bully you when we get the overall attendance numbers of the tour

>>20991203
kek this made him run away to take a countout loss

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>he's started his "you're all the same person" schizo meltdown
the grimposter has been grim'd
all signs point to KWAB

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>Grimcel got reverse grim'd

Ya love to see it kek

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>no belt
>dumped by Amasaki
>concussed out of the young guy showcase G1
What's he thinking right now?

Oiwa vs. Murashima in the Tokyo Dome will feed families

>>20991331
was he really dumped by miyu-chan ?

g-word

>>20991384
yeah their exchange in the rambo is going to be a banger

>>20991384
Murashima should debut by body slamming Hartley 47 times in a row

I hope Callum is not making it to the final, I'm tired of the Callum experiment, this faggot shouldn't even have more than 6 points. We need Yuya vs Oiwa.

>>20991384
I just hope he picks the singlet look back up. ム looked dimes with it.

Tsuji winning and choosing Shota as his opponent seems possible, but it's also a surefire way of getting Shota booed again

Tsuji winning and challenging Okada

>>20991742
I'd argue that Tsuji doesnt need the Okada win anymore

>>20991769
This. In-story, he's already carved himself out as the absolute best NJPW has to offer and his matches now have that big match feel that he didn't have in his first run and that Callum didn't have. Out of universe, even if Okada was told by Tony to lose, he would sandbag the match and make Tsuji look bad. He had zero desire to do any business for the next generation when he worked here, never mind after he's gone somewhere else.

>>20991795
>Out of universe, even if Okada was told by Tony to lose, he would sandbag the match and make Tsuji look bad.
Completely headcanon, holy shit. New derangement syndrome just dropped, ODS.

Yeah speculation is generally considered "headcanon" due to it being speculation ya fuckin retard

>>20992274
It's absurd speculation. It's like you're speculating that a unicorn rips through the ceiling of the Tokyo Dome and impales Tsuji in the middle of their match.
Okada has no grudge against NJPW or its talent. It's clear after that podcast that his issues were with the head office and largely the parent company. He sure didn't sandbag Tanahashi at the Dome.

>>20991742
I don't want Okada back, he's in his surfing Shinsuke arc.

>>20992336
It's not absurd. The last person he put over in his NJPW tenure outside of tournament play was AEW talent Bryan Danielson in June 2023. Then after the G1 he didn't wrestle one single singles match until he faced Danielson again in January 2024, got his win back, wrestled his friends Will and Tana and then quit. He spent nearly the entirety of his final run in NJPW doing tag matches with his friends.
In AEW he is the same, doing tag matches with his friends the Bucks and sleepwalking through occasional singles matches. The only people he steps into his higher gear for are people he highly respects. Obviously he didn't sandbag for Tanahashi, just like he wouldn't do it to Will.

He could have worked with Reiwa players and he had no interest in doing so, despite receiving such a benefit from Tanahashi almost immediately after coming back from excursion himself. He paid nothing back to the new era and will never do so.

>>20991701
There's no reason for him to do that inside or outside kayfabe

>>20992406
It is absurd, your entire theory is based around the concept that guys in NJPW book themselves which is complete nonsense. You have constructed an entire narrative in your head. That is the definition of 'derangement syndrome' and you've got a bad case of ODS.

You're gonna have to get over it because he'll definitely be back for his retirement run.

>>20992474
I can't explain anything to a guy who has never heard of the concept of big leaguing, kek. What a fool. "That's not gonna work for me, brother". Yeah, I'm sure it was Gedo's choice to make the ace of the promotion a six man tag guy with dad Ishii for a year. Baka

>>20992507
If you've got a guy who has been booked as being high above pretty much everyone else, a perennial champion, and you don't want him to be your champ, then yeah, you keep him out of the championship picture by doing shit like tags. It's booking 101, ODS-san.

Booking 101 doesn't create a wasteland period that a bunch of young guys with no rub have to spend years clawing the company out of all by themselves. NJPW is just now finally getting on track due to gritty young guys like Oiwa, and I'd rather he face Tsuji rather than Midkarda.

ODS is never catching on, tranny.

I know this G1 was meant for Uemura, but Oiwa has killed it and they should let him win with the soul of Tenzan increasing his power level

Tsuji winning and challenging Naito

>>20993324
Double title matchu

Tsuji winning and challenging Naraku

>>20992561
>Midkarda
kek this nigga got a bad case of ODS

>>20993324
Thought this was a shitpost but he actually did say he wanted to challenge him lol
Feels like a cheap play for attention after the buzz Naito generated from winning the GHC